(Washington, D.C.), (President's Special Review Board), (1987). Known as "the Tower report," this was the most significant report of the Reagan presidency, summarizing the events that came to be known as the "Iran-Contra Affair" and that led to the resignation of Reagan's White House Chief of Staff, Donald Regan, and the convictions, later overturned, of Oliver North and Admiral William C. Poindexter. A source for conspiracy theorists ever since, the report characterized a White House out of control, with a detached and disinterested President and a staff that neglected to keep him in the loop on several of the largest and most critical foreign policy issues of the time, not to mention the U.S. responses to them. Notwithstanding the outpouring of affection for Reagan manifested after his death, the image that the Tower report painted of him tended to stick over the years, and colored his legacy. The extra-legal maneuverings of the White House staff, including Vice President George H.W. Bush and various members of the National Security Council, helped reestablish the idea, left over from Watergate and the early 70s, that government was unreliable and untrustworthy -- itself a legacy that underlies, and informs, political debate in this country to this day. This copy of the report is signed by John Tower, Edmund Muskie and Brent Scowcroft, who prepared it. Light rubbing; near fine in wrappers. [#023226] SOLD